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After scooping many inthemix âBest Festivalâ awards in 2010 with an amazing 5 shows across the country, Stereosonic returns for 2011!

With an amazing line-up of current stars and future legends combined with the best venues and crowds in Australia, Stereosonic welcomes the...

Bathroom situation was surprisingly good for a festival last year. As Ed, Turk and Queen said, the site is so large there's a large number of bathrooms - some are even tucked away where people don't even go looking so you never have to line up at all.

This lineup is a massive fail though. Only PvH and Deetron are of any interest to me. I'd say BT, but I saw him live two years ago and he was terrible. The days of "Fibonacci Sequence" are long gone, sadly. Sideshows for PvH and Deetron please, not paying a full festival ticket price for two acts and a bunch of music that will make me feel like necking myself

And seriously, if you were going to book D&B acts, you could have done better than Andy C and Sub Focus, feels like a token attempt to say "oh look at us, we are diverse, we are booking drum & bass acts!"

Its just a shame a couple of the trance names like arty and myon & shane 54 weren't on the Godskitchen lineup. Still think this festival has something for everyone and probably one of the best lineups for a mainstream festival in the last couple of years or so, from a trance perspective anyway.

I'm sure there are heaps of trance fans (myself included) that would strongly disagree with your statement.

this is the issue i think. the only people who are fapping over the line up are trance heads. So clearly the line up favours you guys. But the diversity in other genres is fairly non existant. apart from a bit of techno here, a spot of drum n bass there, the token prog dj etc etc
last year was great for techno, for example
I wouldn't say its a shit line up, theres some ok acts, but on a whole trance fans clearly won scissor, paper, rock this time round.

If you were a girl you would understand !!!
You men can just Pee where ever you like - we cant
So yeah - we do decide on a venue - esp a festival based on if it has ample toilets etc

So has anyone actually been to a Stereo there before ??? who can comment with first hand knowledge ..

Don't bother with the gold class unless you're really interested in hanging out in the special VIP areas with the better view.

I didn't lineup for a toilet last year; just go to the ones away from the busy areas. There were some good permanent toilets next to the coatcheck, and the good portable ones were behind the Carl Cox stage (the stage furthest from the entrance). Avoid the ones in the main arena.

Don't bother with the gold class unless you're really interested in hanging out in the special VIP areas with the better view.

I didn't lineup for a toilet last year; just go to the ones away from the busy areas. There were some good permanent toilets next to the coatcheck, and the good portable ones were behind the Carl Cox stage (the stage furthest from the entrance). Avoid the ones in the main arena.

yeah wowky would you be saying its a massive fail if there were 2 or 3 big techno names on there that you wanted? it's only a fail for you cuz that's not the case. yet other way around..and it'd be a big win. hardware decided to go in favour of trance instead of techno this year. shoe was on the other foot last year when people like me saw the lineup as a fail cuz of the lack of trance yet techno fans saw the lineup as a win.

How can ppl whinge about the lineup... its a damn gud trance line up yet there are some gud all around djs.. BT, Carl cox, Benny Benassi, Empire of the sun for the live music fans... I think overall its a win win line up for every1....

Huge mainstream lineup. Not for me however. The guys i want to see play are more guys that i would expect to play a sort of club gig and therefore don't warrant me paying for a festival ticket price and deal with a shit crowd that these types of lineup seem to bring

I just finished 3 days of Tomorrowland in Belgium... Aussie festivals need to lift their game! hopefully these guys spend a bit of their revenue on production besides some scaffolding for the DJ to play on and a couple of screens, for that price especially! We lack so much there it's dismal.

Guy Gerber ripped it, would love to see him again. But so did Magda, Lawler, Vath, Raresh, Carola, Hawtin - and that's just what I caught of the tech... more diversity definitely needed at Stereosonic to be taken seriously as a must not miss institution type festival. They set it up well last year, dropped the ball this year.

I just finished 3 days of Tomorrowland in Belgium... Aussie festivals need to lift their game! hopefully these guys spend a bit of their revenue on production besides some scaffolding for the DJ to play on and a couple of screens, for that price especially! We lack so much there it's dismal.

Guy Gerber ripped it, would love to see him again. But so did Magda, Lawler, Vath, Raresh, Carola, Hawtin - and that's just what I caught of the tech... more diversity definitely needed at Stereosonic to be taken seriously as a must not miss institution type festival. They set it up well last year, dropped the ball this year.

Yeah but those names are definitely not very diverse.

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if you stroke your chin hard enough i heard a genie comes out and gives you 3 track ids

yeah wowky would you be saying its a massive fail if there were 2 or 3 big techno names on there that you wanted? it's only a fail for you cuz that's not the case. yet other way around..and it'd be a big win. hardware decided to go in favour of trance instead of techno this year. shoe was on the other foot last year when people like me saw the lineup as a fail cuz of the lack of trance yet techno fans saw the lineup as a win.

There are two big techno names on there that I wanted...Deetron and PvH. But overall, lineup is filled with people who have toured here plenty of times (Armin, Ferry, Benassi) and ****s who are past their prime (BT, Cox) or represent the most horribly easily digestible crap version of a style of music (Sub Focus). I can't be arsed spending that much money on two artists I actually want to see. Last year I reckon I was interested in at least 50% of the lineup (and it wasn't just the techno acts - there were good non-obvious, non-mainstream acts across styles of music), and same as the year before. This year is incredibly one-sided musically, leaning almost exclusively toward average mainstream crud, and they'll lose the chinstroker punters who went last year and the year before as a result IMO.

There is medina service appartments just next to central station.... if that exact location ya r after.... Meriton apartments on kent st and world sqaure a bit pricey though... f ya r coming to syd just for stereo there are hotels and appartments in home bush the location of the event itself..

There is medina service appartments just next to central station.... if that exact location ya r after.... Meriton apartments on kent st and world sqaure a bit pricey though... f ya r coming to syd just for stereo there are hotels and appartments in home bush the location of the event itself..

Yes, but are they 3 bedroom?

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if you stroke your chin hard enough i heard a genie comes out and gives you 3 track ids

How can ppl whinge about the lineup... its a damn gud trance line up yet there are some gud all around djs.. BT, Carl cox, Benny Benassi, Empire of the sun for the live music fans... I think overall its a win win line up for every1....

^^Just cause you don't like it (and I'm not hugely thrilled by it personally either TBH), doesn't mean it's a "fail" lineup. It's a pimp lineup in a lot of ways, wank on about Sub Focus and Andy C all you like but it doesn't take away from the fact it's got a fairly impressive combined drum n' bass and dubstep contingent for this kind of event (ie. NOT for DnB chinstrokers, you can go elsewhere for that).

It's just failed to deliver on the house/techno Sneakerpeeps side of things - and even then, only cause they set the standard so high the past two years.

We took a look at his goods when we got him home. I never want to see anything like that again - it looked like his penis had been traumatically amputated and stitched back on by a blind grandmother with no arms.

Only thing is I bet we will have to make the choice between ferry closing cream or armin on mainstage.

I was thinking about that too, surely the organisers would be smart enough to avoid that? I really can't see an Armin mainstage closing set working out - Armin wouldn't want to play the same mainstream garbage Tiesto gave last year and the mainstream crowd watching wouldn't want to hear trance?

I was thinking about that too, surely the organisers would be smart enough to avoid that? I really can't see an Armin mainstage closing set working out - Armin wouldn't want to play the same mainstream garbage Tiesto gave last year and the mainstream crowd watching wouldn't want to hear trance?

The world's number one DJ for the last four years not closing the main stage??? Surely you jest.

Armin will close the main stage and it will shit all over Tiesto's set.

this. he is the headliner and will most certainly close the main stage. (unless a last minute surprise is pulled out the hat)
i would think promoters are smart enough to not have an armin/ ferry clash, but logistically (crowd control) it might be necessary

The world's number one DJ for the last four years not closing the main stage??? Surely you jest.

Armin will close the main stage and it will shit all over Tiesto's set.

When he played at We Love Sounds a couple of years back he wasn't on the main stage. It's just a confusing set up so far IMO - Armin vs. Ferry clash (assuming Ferry headlines the trance stage) and pumping trance to a crowd of 40,000 clueless Sydney Top 40 lovers just don't make much sense to me.

When he played at We Love Sounds a couple of years back he wasn't on the main stage. It's just a confusing set up so far IMO - Armin vs. Ferry clash (assuming Ferry headlines the trance stage) and pumping trance to a crowd of 40,000 clueless Sydney Top 40 lovers just don't make much sense to me.